Dark Tales & Light
Ten dark and darkly humorous stories, sf and fantasy, all previously uncollected, reprinted from the pages of Science Fiction Age, Realms of Fantasy, Talebones, and other leading genre publications. Includes honorable mentions from Year's Best Science Fiction and Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.
Contents:
- Curse of the Simulacrum's Wife
- Striker Out
- With Vorpal Sword in Hand
- Anesthesia Man
- Love in Babylon
- Curse of the Cyberhead's Wife
- Curse of the Hypnotist's Wife
- On Spending the Night Alone in a Haunted House: A User's Guide
- Pulp Woman Gets Her Man
- Pest Control
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Bruce Boston
Bruce Boston (born 1943) is an American speculative fiction writer and poet who was born in Chicago and grew up in Southern California.
Bruce Boston has won the Rhysling Award for speculative poetry a record seven times: for Best Long Poem in 1989 and 1999, and for Best Short Poem in 1985, 1988, 1994, 1996, and 2001, and the Asimov's Readers' Award for poetry a record six times: 1990, 1994, 1997, 2003, 2005 and 2008. He has also received a Pushcart Prize for fiction, 1976, the Bram Stoker Award for his poetry collections Pitchblende, 2003, Shades Fantastic, 2006, and The Nightmare Collection, 2008, and the first Grandmaster Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, 1999. His collaborative poem with Robert Frazier, "Return to the Mutant Rain Forest," received first place in the 2006 Locus Online Poetry Poll for Best All-Time Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror Poem.
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